The first complete mitochondrial genome of Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)

Hsin-Ting Yeh; Chiun-Cheng Ko; Li-Wei Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1772682

The first complete mitochondrial genome of Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 2;5(3):2288-2290. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1772682. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Hsin-Ting Yeh¹, Chiun-Cheng Ko², Li-Wei Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ The Experimental Forest, National Taiwan University, Nantou County, Taiwan.
² Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Abstract

Hemlock wooly adelgid (HWA), Adelgests ugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), is a species native to Asia but later ravages Endangered hemlock forests (Tsuga spp.) in eastern North America. In this study, we obtained the first complete mitochondrial genome of HWA (16,509 bp in length) using meta-genomic sequencing method. The HWA mitogenome has a general gene annotation as other aphids, comprising 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs. Our phylogenetic result showed Aphidoidea is sister to Coccoidea and the newly sequenced mitogenome is put on the correct position, sister to Adelgeslaricis.

Keywords: Invasive insect; forest pest; galling aphid; spruce.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by the Experimental Forest of National Taiwan University 108-A04-1 and 109-F01 projects. The development of mitogenomic assembling method was supported by the grants of the Ministry of Science and Technology MOST grant of Taiwan [106-2311-B-002-021-MY3].